Fish_Eye
10-31-2004, 09:57 AM
Yesterday morning I found a couple hundred schoolies stacked up at:
41°19.533’ N
71°45.194’ W
There was one bass close to 15 pounds in the mix, but no really big fish or bait concentrations to be found.
At 11:27 AM I found the largest school of 3 to 6 pound bass shoaling in the 15 foot deep water at:
41°19.459’ N
71°45.028’ W
Here again the bass were uniformly small with no bait to hold them in the area, therefore one minute they were there, the next minute they were gone.
I know this post is a little more specific than most, but I think the “spot burning” issue is getting a little out of hand…on both sides of the issue, and I wanted to have a little fun with a very delicate subject. BTW, the locations are accurate.
If you’ve seen any of my presentations or videos, you know I deal in generalities and generic descriptions of areas that hold fish; I do this for a couple of reasons: A – I don’t want to cheat anglers from the reward of “discovering” a special hot spot by reading charts, or by performing low tide reconnaissance missions, or by just fishing likely habitat; B – Certain areas don’t have the public access for large crowds and I don’t want to put undue pressure on these very special locations.
This time of year I see so many anglers waiting until they see obvious signs of fish working before they’ll even wet a line. Boy do they miss a lot of opportunities! During this stage of the run, the fish are on the move, generally only staying in one spot if there are a lot of baitfish or a high likelihood that there will be the appearance of bait i.e., mouth of a breachway on an outgoing tide. Find the bait, you’ll find the bass.
The best way to connect with late season linesiders is to put your time in and work the likely areas. Don’t depend on information that is posted on the Internet, or for that matter is more than a couple of hours old. And when you do have a banner day or night, there is no need to tell the world that it happened on the big flat rock, at the first bend on the East Matunuck Breakwater. Think before you type. Would you have had a banner outing if you found five new strangers elbowing you off “your” rock?
I’m certain there are a few more weeks of good opportunity left for those of you who are willing to confront the weather and spend the time fishing – not just driving around waiting to find a blitz underway.
This is just my humble opinion, now get out there and enjoy the fall run before another horrible winter rolls in.
Mike
41°19.533’ N
71°45.194’ W
There was one bass close to 15 pounds in the mix, but no really big fish or bait concentrations to be found.
At 11:27 AM I found the largest school of 3 to 6 pound bass shoaling in the 15 foot deep water at:
41°19.459’ N
71°45.028’ W
Here again the bass were uniformly small with no bait to hold them in the area, therefore one minute they were there, the next minute they were gone.
I know this post is a little more specific than most, but I think the “spot burning” issue is getting a little out of hand…on both sides of the issue, and I wanted to have a little fun with a very delicate subject. BTW, the locations are accurate.
If you’ve seen any of my presentations or videos, you know I deal in generalities and generic descriptions of areas that hold fish; I do this for a couple of reasons: A – I don’t want to cheat anglers from the reward of “discovering” a special hot spot by reading charts, or by performing low tide reconnaissance missions, or by just fishing likely habitat; B – Certain areas don’t have the public access for large crowds and I don’t want to put undue pressure on these very special locations.
This time of year I see so many anglers waiting until they see obvious signs of fish working before they’ll even wet a line. Boy do they miss a lot of opportunities! During this stage of the run, the fish are on the move, generally only staying in one spot if there are a lot of baitfish or a high likelihood that there will be the appearance of bait i.e., mouth of a breachway on an outgoing tide. Find the bait, you’ll find the bass.
The best way to connect with late season linesiders is to put your time in and work the likely areas. Don’t depend on information that is posted on the Internet, or for that matter is more than a couple of hours old. And when you do have a banner day or night, there is no need to tell the world that it happened on the big flat rock, at the first bend on the East Matunuck Breakwater. Think before you type. Would you have had a banner outing if you found five new strangers elbowing you off “your” rock?
I’m certain there are a few more weeks of good opportunity left for those of you who are willing to confront the weather and spend the time fishing – not just driving around waiting to find a blitz underway.
This is just my humble opinion, now get out there and enjoy the fall run before another horrible winter rolls in.
Mike